The first? Like a bird? – Able to cover much ground very quickly, a broader perpective than others.
The second? Like a cat? – Always lands on its feet, can see clearly in the gloom of post-modern science.
The third? Like a canine? – Can easily track things down. Loyal, courageous.
The fourth? Like a donkey? – Hard working, sure footed, can carry a heavy burden.
The fifth? – The fifth amendment? Maybe where I should have started (and stopped). 🙂

Over at lucias someboday asked how to calculate stats on a ratio. I recall us ( maybe it was UC) discussing this on CA back in 2007, I can’t remember how to do it and lost my Rice mathematical data analysis and stats book.
Can you help

I hate to give you an incomplete answer, but the answer depends on which statistics you are talking about and whether the numerator and denominator are independent.

I will try to take a glance at Lucia’s blog later. I am currently vacationing in Las Vegas with my wife for several days so I need to pay more attention to site-seeing with her instead of sitting in front of the computer like I do at home 😉 .